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Reporter turned organic propagandist who twists science to discredit biotech & ag

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Part I: Carey Gillam — Reporter turned organic propagandist who twists science in campaign to discredit biotechnology and conventional agriculture
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2022/...riculture/

EXCERPTS: With links to the Church of Scientology, anti-vaccine glyphosate litigator Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Organic Consumers Association, US Right to Know, and Environmental Working Group, this former Reuters reporter has spearheaded the effort by organic promoters to discredit GMOs, glyphosate, and other agri-technological tools positioned to feed a growing global population and address climate change. Here’s her story … and why she does it...

[...] Carey Gillam’s piece was quickly disseminated by the usual leftwing channels but also became a favorite of the far right, from the Gospel News Network to The Epoch Times, which makes the case that the government is untrustworthy. She’s beloved by activists, particularly those reflexively critical of “Big Agriculture” and advocates of organic farming. She was drafted by Farmer’s Footprint to moderate and guide the webinar.

The event went as would be expected. Glyphosate is a hidden killer. The agricultural industry conspires to hide the facts. The US EPA and other global agencies that have determined the herbicide is ‘safe as used’ are part of a global conspiracy.

Booker bit. Three days later, he released a statement co-signed by eight Democratic senators, urging the US Fish and Wildlife Service to sharply restrict the use of glyphosate and other long-approved pesticides on National Wildlife Refuges without even suggesting what safer alternatives could be substituted. (There aren’t any.)

The original report and the seminar were panned by independent scientists... (MORE - missing details)
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Part II: Web of Disinformers: Carey Gillam, the network of anti-crop biotechnology activists, and the funders behind their campaigns
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2022/...campaigns/

EXCERPT: USRTK was formally launched in January 2015 by former Yes on Prop 37 (mandatory GMO labeling ballot measure in California) campaign manager Gary Ruskin and its media director Stacy Malkan with seed money from the Organic Consumers Association (OCA). It operates under the tagline “Exposing what the food industry doesn’t want you to know.” We’ll have the background on OCA coming up.

USRTK engages in attacks on agricultural businesses if they are not organic and the broader food industry if it does not align with her ideological objection to genetically modified seeds. The organization alleges unethical lobbying and excessive political influence on issues linked to GMOs, pesticides, sweeteners, and marketing to children. It has written a slew of attack blogs against organizations and people it believes are supportive of agricultural biotechnology— insinuations that are frequently circulated on social media and occasionally picked up by mainstream journalists, some of whom are unaware of USRTK’s history, funding sources and ideological orientation.

Among its targets are numerous distinguished scientists, such as Nina Fedoroff, a former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; University of California-Davis plant scientist Pamela Ronald; researchers affiliated with the Gates-funded Cornell Alliance for Science (a global outreach and education agency focusing on food and farming) and University of Florida professor Kevin Folta, a central target of USRTK.

This organization, conducting its business from a PO Box in Oakland, California, has also targeted dozens of mainstream journalists, including this author and independent science reporters Mark Lynas, Keith Kloor and Tamar Haspel, among many others [for USRTK’s entire hit list, click here>]. Haspel was aggressive in a point-by-point response [Let’s talk about journalism ethics — mine and HuffPost’s] to an attack article that ran in the Huffington Post, written by Paul Thacker, a contract writer for USRTK with a controversial history. [Just last week, oncologist and surgeon David Gorski, founder of the Science-based Medicine blog, wrote a scathing takedown of Thacker’s biases including his recent embrace of vaccine denialism, which runs rampant at USRTK, Organic Consumers Association, and throughout the anti-GMO left.]

USTRK donor list includes organizations well known for supporting fringe medicine and activist causes—almost all in a position to financially gain from its attacks, suggesting massive conflicts of interest. The backbone of its funding came from the Organic Consumers Association, which has contributed more than one million dollars since its founding.

USRTK is also supported by and partners with one of the most notorious anti-science alternative and natural medicine-promoting quacks—Dr. Joseph Mercola... (MORE - missing details)
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